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Friends, this week has been full of transitions and new beginnings. Most of our local schools are back in session, and on Wednesday I had the pleasure of welcoming our new Israeli Young Emissaries, or shinshinim, Shaked Buzaglo and Michal Hacmon, to Connecticut for the 2019-2020 school year.…
Jewish Federation and Greater Hartford’s Jewish community are delighted to welcome our new Israeli emissaries, Shaked Buzaglo and Michal Hacmon! They are arriving on August 28… they can’t wait and neither can we! If you’d like to host them for a Shabbat dinner or for a longer visit, …
This Shabbat is Tisha B'Av, marking the demise of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and calamitous events affecting the Jewish people over the last two millennia. This year, the fast and related restrictions are postponed until Sunday. The symbolism of the day is marked by contradict…
Not all of us are able or ready to take advantage of the beauty and richness of our Jewish heritage and its traditions. We all move at our own pace, follow our unique inner voices and seek meaning in ways that we alone can own. This week's Torah portion, B'haalot'cha, asks the question, What…
How do you transform a ragged mass of slaves escaping unimaginable tyranny into a functioning, viable society whose laws, principles and values would help form today's modern world? It all started in the desert, when Moses was commanded to organize this mass of people into groups and then co…
